Modi named chairman of BJP election committeePanaji, June 9 (IANS): After much wrangling and dissent within, the BJP on Sunday announced that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had been named chairman of the election management committee for the Lok Sabha polls. ...

Poverty, unemployment thrust areas: GogoiGUWAHATI, June 8 – Asserting that the State was moving in the right direction under the Congress Government, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today singled out poverty alleviation, employment generation and rural development as some of the thrust areas of ...

BJP dilemma over Modi as campaign chiefPANAJI, June 8 – BJP was in a dilemma today over anointing Narendra Modi as campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the absence of patriarch LK Advani and other senior leaders, who have not turned up for the ongoing national exec ...

Guwahati Central Jail: Alert after Maoist’s escape bidGUWAHATI, June 8 – An alert has been sounded in all prisons, particularly those housing Maoist cadres in the State, after an escape bid by a hardcore Maoist leader last evening in the Guwahati Central Jail was foiled and incriminating documents were ...

Governor for mechanised muga productionGUWAHATI, June 8 – Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik has made a suggestion for adopting green house technology in rearing muga seed cocoons. This suggestion of the Governor came at the first meeting of the Advisory Committee for Technology Development a ...